Legally Kidnapped

Saturday, January 31, 2009

After a two-year battle, an Enumclaw couple is about to be reunited with their granddaughter. It's a stunning turn of events in a bitter custody case that the KING 5 Investigators have been following for months. A judge has just ruled the child is leaving foster care to be with family.

Just hit play and watch. Several video's will play in succession. And when you are watching this, remember one thing...

On Thursday, January 29, 2009, Lawrence County Sheriff's Investigators arrested Gregory Lee Terry for Rape First Degree and Torture or Willful Child Abuse, according to Sheriff Gene Mitchell.

Mitchell said that Investigators, and the Lawrence County Department of Human Resources, began investigating Terry after complaints were received alleging that he had raped a 14 year old white female, whom he was a foster parent to.

Child welfare in Georgia has made remarkable progress in serving its most vulnerable children and families in recent years. This progress will be jeopardized if the budget cuts proposed by the governor are implemented. The greatest victims will be those who are least able to protect themselves, the children who are at risk of abuse and neglect.

A Texarkana woman has been released from jail after spending more than a week behind bars for contempt of court after refusing to answer questions about pictures and video of children from the Tony Alamo Christian Ministries.

President Obama’s pick for secretary of health and human services, Tom Daschle, failed to pay more than $140,000 in taxes, mostly for free use of a car and driver that had been provided to him by a prominent businessman and Democratic fund-raiser, administration officials said on Friday.

Yet the USA's child protection "system" is a case study in broken bureaucracy. With 2,200 individual jurisdictions, with mountains of inconsistent rules and procedures, this fractured patchwork of purported protection has created barriers that actually prevent children from reaching safe home environments or gaining crucial access to effective judicial remedies.

A 2008 study by the child advocacy organization First Star found that state confidentiality policies regarding child fatalities and near-fatalities often protect agencies and perpetrators over children. When states were graded on this problem, ten flunked, among them Maryland, Pennsylvania, Vermont and Tennessee.

- Another First Star study found that most states do not provide abused and neglected children with adequate legal representation, leaving their voices muffled while decisions are made about their futures. When graded, fifteen states flunked, among them states from which candidates in the last election hailed -- Illinois, Delaware, and Alaska.

The sheriff said Terry is accused of forcing a 14-year-old girl to have sex with him and whipping a 16-year-old boy with a fishing pole. At the time, the boy was in custody of Terry, who is a former foster parent.

Charging the administration of District of Columbia Mayor Adrian Fenty with impeding the implementation of court-ordered reforms to the District’s dysfunctional child welfare system — and placing the administration’s desire to exit court oversight ahead of the safety and well-being of DC’s abused and neglected children — Children’s Rights renewed a motion late yesterday asking a federal judge to hold the District in contempt of court.

Franklin D. Schafer, who appeared Thursday in Niagara County Court on child sex abuse charges that carry a maximum sentence of life in prison, is a former county social services employee whose duties included driving foster children to and from doctors’ appointments.

The NJ father who gave his children Nazi-themed names gave an interview with MyFoxNY, to decry his family's treatment by the state authorities. Heath Campbell complained that his children were removed from their home only because of their names—and that the state isn't taking care of his kids.

Campbell and wife Deborah saw their kids for the first time, since they were taken, on Monday, and Campbell was aghast at their conditions, noting that one baby's diaper was leaking and that the kids' hair was in knots. He said there was no evidence of abuse, "They don't know us. If they lived in our home, they wouldn't take our kids away."

Four months before the death of an infant this week in a squalid Northwest Side home, state child welfare workers found the same apartment untidy and in disarray but offered no services to the family, records reviewed Thursday by the Tribune show.

Last month the West Virginia Supreme Court agreed to hear a case stemming from a judge's order that an infant be removed from the same-sex foster parents who had cared for her since birth and placed with "traditional" family:

Note: Ok, there are too many stories about gay people who want your children. This calls for a LK opinion poll. Please answer the two questions in the sidebar.

There’s something bizarre occurring in Britain and it has to do with children, grandparent’s rights, and the Social Services system.

Yesterday DBKP reported on a Brit couple whose desire to adopt their grandchildren was denied on two grounds: the couple was too “old” and the agency demanded that the children be placed with a gay couple comprised of men.

One sister is 14; the other is 9. They are a vibrant pair: the older girl is high-spirited but responsible, a solid student and a devoted helper at home; her sister loves to read and watch cooking shows, and she recently scored well above average on citywide standardized tests.

There would be nothing remarkable about these two happy, normal girls if it were not for their mother’s history. Yvette H., now 38, admits that she used cocaine (along with heroin and alcohol) while she was pregnant with each girl. “A drug addict,” she now says ruefully, “isn’t really concerned about the baby she’s carrying.”

Three days after YFZ Ranch leader Merril Jessop pleaded the Fifth Amendment a jaw-dropping 267 times, another member of the polygamous group that owns the property racked up 110 Fifth pleadings during his own deposition, according to a rough draft of the transcript obtained by the Standard-Times.

Florida Department of Children and Families (DCF) employee Susan Curry Wolfe, 47, an Economic Self Sufficiency Eligibility Supervisor in the ACCESS Florida Program located in the Jacksonville office has been arrested on a variety of charges.

A measure that came before a legislative committee on Wednesday would require that the agency that came under fire during the recent safe-haven controversy be evaluated by formal accreditors.

State Sen. Annette Dubas of Fullerton introduced LB247, which would require the Division of Children and Family Services in the Department of Health and Human Services to undergo regular accreditation. Dubas said the measure would create uniform standards and generate more accountability for state dollars allocated to HHS.

The Family Court and Child Support System are so corrupt and so devoid of due Process of Law no American should ever assume those being targeted by these crooked agencies are anything else than completely innocent.

Wednesday, January 28, 2009

For years, the state of Florida has failed children who passed through the child welfare system. Failures led to task forces that prompted reforms, but serious problems remain. Some of the major cases:

A family member of Kinkead's claims he was raped at Kinkead's home when he was 8 years old. Two brothers who were foster children at the home said they were molested by Kinkead. Some of the assaults allegedly also took place at the church next door.

Wisconsin has agreed to a plan aimed at fixing persistent problems in Milwaukee County's state-run child welfare program, a national children's advocacy group announced today, citing the November death of 13-month-old foster child Christopher Thomas as evidence of continued weaknesses in the Bureau of Milwaukee Child Welfare.

Researchers have completed a three-and-a-half year investigation into how the city's child welfare system enrolled foster kids in HIV drug trials. They took place during a time when AIDS and crack were beginning to wreak havoc on poor communities. The report finds that while the city acted in good faith in trying to get potentially lifesaving treatment to kids, it also flouted some serious rules and kept sloppy records. WNYC's Cindy Rodriguez reports.

Parents will do extraordinary things when their children are threatened. Andy and Nicola Luzyn are no exception - right now their family is separated by thousands of miles, not by choice but by fear. Three months ago in a late night dash Nicola boarded a plane to the UK with their three youngest children and fled the country, terrified their children were going to be snatched from the family home. Andy is still here on their Cambridge farm with 15-year-old Michael. What could possess such a tight knit family to go to such extremes? Sofia Wenborn with the story of the Luzyn family...

A British social worker who spent six months with Child Youth and Family has spoken out against the department, claiming its processes are unethical.

Jonny Ward worked for CYF in South Auckland but left his job in protest, saying families were broken apart unnecessarily.

"What I wasn't happy with was lack of involvement with parents, parents not being informed when being questioned at school, children being removed without parents being aware that was going to happen. Just a lack of involvment with parents," says Ward.

Note: Is it just me or is the bald headed dude in this video lying his ass off?

Tuesday, January 27, 2009

Prosecutors say a man is accused of sexually assaulting a 17-year-old foster child. The 44-year-old Phillips man is facing a charge of sexual assault of a child by a foster parent or treatment foster parent. The Price County Sheriff says he has not been arrested, but is scheduled to be in court February 18th.

An investigation into the participation of New York City foster children in clinical drug trials for H.I.V. and AIDS over a nearly 20-year period has found no evidence that any children died as a result of the trials or that the foster children were selected because of their race.

I’m posting this letter again because I’m hoping that the members of the Yahoo! group FixCPS might come by & copy, alter & send it off themselves. There’s still a hope in me that I might actually be able to be a part of some serious changes in CPS.

His grandparents, Anita and Tom Bruton, retrieved the 4-year-old from the temporary foster home where he has lived since Jan. 2. The first thing he did when he came through their door was about a dozen things at once.

Justice Waghela also reprimanded the foster mother for not sending the boy on two occasions to his biological parents since the court order on December 30, 2008. The court had directed to send the boy to his biological parents every Sunday, but the foster mother sent him only on two Sundays.

The father of a Fresno boy beaten to death confronted the county Tuesday morning. After he said C.P.S. didn't do its job.

In light of the beating death of 10-year old Seth Ireland, Supervisor Henry Perea wanted to discuss how a new law could help the board improve child protective services. But at the meeting, Seth Ireland's father publicly criticized the handling of Seth's case and said the head of Child Protective Services should have resigned.

Since 1960, the rate of violent crimes has more than tripled. Every day there are news reports of heinous crimes unheard of in America a generation ago. Children murder their playmates, their teachers and their parents. Teenage mothers abandon their newborn babies in trashcans, and every year students commit carnage on their classmates. Our culture has sunk so low that children are no longer safe with their teachers in school or at church – scores of men and women are arrested every year for preying on the children under their care.

Parents, security experts and opposition parties have voiced alarm that 400,000 people are to be given access to a new national database containing details of all 11 million children living in England.

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi drew the ire of the conservative-leaning Drudge Report Sunday when she defended House Democrats' efforts to include family planning funding for low income Americans in the planned $825 million stimulus package.

TWO severely disabled children who were removed from the home of their foster carer on the grounds that she might be a "compulsive care giver" are on the way home.

The Australian last week reported the case of the woman, a registered nurse, who lost the right to care for the children after a psychologist suggested she was deriving a worrying amount of satisfaction from her role as their carer.

Two Pennsylvania judges agreed Monday to plead guilty to fraud charges accusing them of taking $2.6 million in kickbacks in return for placing juvenile offenders into certain detention facilities.

The plea agreements for Luzerne County President Judge Mark Ciavarella (shiv-ah-REL'-lah) and Senior Judge Michael Conahan (CON'-ah-han) call for sentences of more than seven years in prison. Both judges have agreed to step down from the bench.

There are lots of ways to stimulate an economy and American taxpayers are about to learn about some of them as Congress and President Obama study an $825 billion package ostensibly aimed to do just that.

Whether building roads or fixing bridges is the best way to spark the economy back into a roar will be a subject of debate in the coming days and there certainly are solid arguments on both sides.

A Sacramento mother convicted earlier this year of killing her 3-year-old son wanted a do-over, but a judge ruled Friday that once was enough.----The murder also revealed the inability of Sacramento's Child Protective Services to decipher the web of lies and appropriately intervene, the subject of a Bee investigation.

Is the state benefiting by farming out more jobs to outside firms? No one knows.----Elected officials have proposed outsourcing even more — having private companies run Texas' toll roads, operate its lotteries and administer child protective services. Meanwhile, some outsourcing ventures have fallen by the wayside.

Sharlynn Bobo, the former head of D.C.’s Child and Family Services Agency, died Saturday after a short battle with pancreatic cancer. She was 61.----Bobo’s tenure came to a sudden end last July, when she was unceremoniously replaced by Fenty, seven months after the Banita Jacks tragedy raised serious questions about the extreme casework backlog at CFSA.----Workers Mourn Death of Former Agency Director

The staff at the D.C. Child and Family Services Agency expressed shock yesterday over this weekend's death of Sharlynn Bobo, the former director of the agency who resigned with the organization under siege after some high-profile cases.

When parents have access to helpful information about raising children and a good support system, cases of child abuse in South Carolina rise at a slower rate and key indicators of child abuse go down, according to a study released Monday.

Note: You know what amazes me? That they need a study to figure these things out.

Telemedicine also can minimize additional trauma to children who might otherwise have to travel for hours to undergo the long and detailed examinations, said senior study author Kristen Rogers, an assistant professor in the Department of Pediatrics working in the UC Davis Children's Hospital Child and Adolescent Abuse Resource and Evaluation (CAARE) Center.

Yesterday on Morning Edition, we told you about upcoming legislation that seeks to make the child welfare system more transparent. The bill would require more information to be made public when a child dies or is seriously injured in foster care. The proposal is one of many designed to reform the system, particularly

The boy had been screaming for over an hour, and his foster mom was beginning to panic. She didn’t know what had sparked the attack, and already the neighbors were calling to complain about the noise. At this late hour, most foster parents would have no choice but to dial 911 and have the child rushed to a hospital.

Instead, the mother called one of the boy’s new caseworkers, an on-call specialist in emotional disturbances. Soon the worker arrived at her Bronx apartment, helped calm the child and put him to bed. The two women stayed up late discussing ways to help the boy beat his demons, a talk they would continue in their monthly meetings with his caseworker.

Putting adoptive parents through the ringer to ensure they're ready to be trusted with your child is one thing. Asking them to pay your traffic tickets? Or buy you a TV?

The state of Oklahoma is working on legislation that would finally put an end to these sorts of demands from biological parents, exorbitant expectations that are being lumped in as part of the adoption "fees" parents-to-be are going into debt to pay.

A 19-year Army veteran, now on his third tour in Iraq, will have his Army pay garnished and his tax refund seized to pay child support for a boy who isn't his.

Genetic tests prove the child is not the son of Master Sgt. Christopher Sprowson. His first wife had the boy after having an affair, and according to the Kansas City Star could not tell the court who the father was. Sprowson and his first wife divorced after the affair.----This video was sent in to me and although it's not the same case, it is the same issue.

Monday, January 26, 2009

We've picked on the blogs of foster parents. We've picked on the blogs of babystealers and you know how much I love picking on some of these blogs. Well now that Legally Kidnapped is in it's terrible two's, you'd think that we'd seen it all.

But not quite, apparently. Until now that is.

I click on this link that I get in an email earlier today and I come to the blog of another adoptive parent, who apparently just happened to get a job working for the adoption agency or something.

First I direct you to a recent post. So hold on to your lunch and Click Here!.

This is the sort of thing that only government bureaucracy can come up with: Australian immigration authorities have decided that Rosabelle Glasby couldn’t bring her identical twin sister into the country because … they’re not related!

Adopted by different families shortly after their birth in Malaysia, Mrs Glasby and Dorothy Loader were separated for almost 50 years before finally meeting last September.

The number of Texas children removed from their families by Child Protective Services declined by more than 18 percent between 2006 and 2008. And by at least one measure, removals in Bexar County fell 52 percent. But some fear the change doesn’t signal a decrease in child abuse.

Note: Yet still the number of children in care increases. That's got to tell you something is wrong.

Over the last decade, the number of children in out-of-home care in Australia rose by almost 115 per cent, from around 14,500 children in 1998 to 31,166 children in 2008, according to a report released today by the Australian Institute of Health and Welfare (AIHW).

The Sun's agony aunt Deidre Sanders is among members of a government taskforce charged with finding ways to restore the battered public reputation of social work in the wake of the Baby P controversy, it was announced today.

Note: And Legally Kidnapped will continue fighting these efforts all the way! Teach your children to recognize a piece of shit when they see one. Warn them about the Boogie Man, I mean Social Workers today.

'Child Care Today," whose subtitle could more accurately read, "Getting It Right for Everyone (Except for the US, Which Is Still Getting So Much of It Wrong)," is not a how-to book for parents on choosing child care (if it were, the best advice would be, Move to Sweden!).

Note: It's International Raising Paranoia Awareness Day on Legally Kidnapped!

In November, a 13-month-old Milwaukee boy was beaten to death while in foster care. His aunt has been charged. The death of Christopher Thomas sparked outrage in the community because of the brutality, and because little information was made public. State Sen. Alberta Darling says she’ll introduce legislation soon requiring more public disclosure when children are killed or seriously injured in foster care. WUWM’s Erin Toner reports.

Top-level talks have begun between the Government and the Catholic bishops to find a legal formula that will enable the Health Service Executive to discover the full scale of clerical child sexual abuse in the Republic.

Sunday, January 25, 2009

The Indonesian legislative election is starting in April, but three political parties have already been reported to the national Elections Supervisory Board, for allegedly breaching election and child protection laws in their election campaign activities.

Susan Hamilton the DCF Commissioner of Connecticut was recently arrested for drunk driving. Over here at Legally Kidnapped, we feel that she should be made an example of and be severely punished to the fullest extent of the law. Because she's a system insider, she will probably get off with nothing more than a slap on the wrist. So I'm giving you an opportunity to do it yourself.

A bill to provide for remedies and prescribe civil sanctions against a person who presents a false or fraudulent claim to obtain money, property, or services from this state; to prescribe the powers and duties of certain state and local governmental officers and agencies; and to prohibit retaliation against a person who pursues a remedy under this act.

A daycare worker accused of second-degree murder is being released pending further investigation, and foster parents of the alleged victim are furious about it.----Some parents concerned about release of daycare worker

A daycare worker accused of second-degree murder is being released pending further investigation.

Exposing the Child Protective Industry for what it is since January 25th 2007.

Yes folks, two years ago today I was so pissed off at a couple of Social Worker's that I created this blog. Of course I quickly got over it, and Legally Kidnapped became something much better. It became a voice for the victims of Child Protective Services and Foster Care. It became a popular and important part of the Family Rights movement. And above all, it became the avenue from which I have been able to meet and make friends with many truly wonderful people.

I also want to take this special opportunity to thank all of the social workers who made this blog possible. So, Sheila, Cheryl, Kathy, Ericka, Kristen, Sara and especially you Brian (the System Suck) I want you all to know that you were truly my inspiration for this. Without all of you this blog would never have been created. Without you, I would still fall under the misguided belief that you people are out to protect children. Thanks to you, I now know better.

I should also note that yesterday was the busiest day Legally Kidnapped has ever had. So help me to continue to spread the word by spreading the link.

The number of Texas children removed from their families by Child Protective Services declined by more than 18 percent between 2006 and 2008. And by at least one measure, removals in Bexar County fell 52 percent. But some fear the change doesn’t signal a decrease in child abuse.

Gov. M. Jodi Rell said she is disappointed that Susan Hamilton, the commissioner of the state's beleaguered child welfare department, has been charged with drunken driving, but added that she believes the incident was "an aberration."

Note: She should be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law. This person should be the shining example the rest of us should be able to follow. She could have gotten into an accident and killed a child for crying out loud. Turns out, she's no better than the rest of us. Sure it could be a simple mistake, a one time deal, whatever. But real parents would be put through the ringer for such behavior. She'll get away with nothing more than a minimal slap on the wrist because not only do they give special treatment to system insiders, but she could probably have the cops children taken away. You wait and see.

As many of you have figured out, the main goal of Legally Kidnapped is to spread awareness, by providing an alternate yet realistic and credible view of the problems that families and children have faced in their dealings with the Child Protective Industry. Over the last couple months, LK has enjoyed a modest 150 to 200 unique visitors a day. That number has been slowly growing over time and coming from various sources, reaching about 250, peaking out at just under 300 one day. So last night, I looked at around 9 PM, and saw that LK had about 150 visitors which was about normal for that time of day. I looked again, just over an hour later and that number had doubled, which was a pretty good boost. So I investigated.

It turned out that all of this extra traffic was coming from a single source, which a good friend and fellow blogger over at Stop Corrupt DSS had turned me onto. So I played around with it for a couple days and moved on. Then all of a sudden, last night, Bam! I'm getting hits up the wazoo! The trend has continued this morning. By 9:45 AM, LK has already had any other given day's worth of visitors (171).

So I wanted to take the time to welcome the new visitors from AlphaInventions and perhaps suggest that some of my other fellow bloggers utilize this source of spreading awareness.

Fresno County Supervisor Henry Perea wants to take advantage of a new state law that allows county boards to review investigative files in the cases of children -- such as Seth Ireland -- who have been beaten to death.

The state attorney general's office accused a Clackamas County judge of "gross abuse of discretion" for ordering child-welfare officials to bail out a child-rape suspect, in documents released this week at the request of The Oregonian.----Oregon AG accuses judge of abusing discretion

No comment, no accountability. Why hasn't the Attorney General prosecuted anyone in CPS, or would that interfere with federal funding? Millions of dollars could have been avoided in settlements if CPS had just made an effort to keep the mother and child together. I hope Attorney Steve Cornwell settles multiple cases such as this to stop the improper removal of children and end federal fraud. There are a few attorneys in Alaska who have adopted this model.

A proposed new law in the state legislature is aimed at increasing the transparency of the juvenile courts in cases related to Child Protective Services. The law, which we are calling the Christopher McIntyre law, will make the court documents for any CPS case involving a fatality or near fatality publically accessible.

KSEE 24 News has learned that Fresno County's Child Protective Services is facing a civil suit in federal court stemming from a case back in 2004. The suit claims a little girl was severely beaten by a woman that CPS helped establish as the girl's legal guardian, despite knowing the woman, Bertha Gonzales, had a history of abuse against her own children.

The Family Court constantly tells us that their rulings are based on the best interest of the child, but consider this. A 5-year-old girl, Stacy Pena, is preparing to do battle with the Bronx Family Court. She has filed a petition to regain her birthrights, which were stolen by this same court, at the request of New York's Administration for Children's Services (ACS), even before she was born. Stacy's biological brother and sister, Joseph and Nancy Pena, were placed into foster care in January 1993, three-years before Stacy's birth. Her parents Lucy and Jose Pena, who had fallen prey to the drug epidemic of the early 90s, understood why their two children had been removed.

Having their children taken from them was a rude awaking for the Pena's. They quickly changed their life style, stopped using drugs and complied with all the requirements ordered by ACS and the family court. ACS however, still insisted the court not return the children and subsequently requested the termination of the Pena's parental rights.

For copies of the complete award winning documentary "Stacy's Story" contact the producer and director Woody Henderson, at ajuststruggle@aol.com. Also be sure to visit our web site at www.ajuststruggle.com

Januray 6, 2009 Residents of Sedgwick County, KS spoke before Legislators in regards to the illegal seizure of children and violations of State, Federal and Constitutional law against families. In 2005 the Legislators were told by Social Workers that they were to ignore laws. In 2008 the Secretary of SRS said that Social Workers in Sedgwick County were being bullied by the DA to falsify documents to remove children from their families. We are asking for an Outside Special Prosecutor to investigate and prosecute all individuals who have broken the law and violated the rights of children and their families

The high rate of Reno County children being removed from their homes shows that the child-welfare system isn't a concern only in Sedgwick County. It also reflects how difficult it can be to determine what's best for a child.

Sunday, Jan. 25, is the date of a Times-Union editorial supporting a full investigation into allegations of beatings and abuse at the Arthur G. Dozier School for Boys in Marianna in the late 1950s and early 1960s.

Roger Dean Kiser, who was transferred from a Jacksonville orphanage to the Marianna facility, has written a new book on his experiences. The title is The White House Boys: An American tragedy.

Grandparents raising grandchildren along with AARP and kincare advocates called upon state leaders to fully fund programs that support kinship caregivers by providing necessary help to successfully raise the children in their care.

Kinship caregivers, who currently raise nearly 400,000 children in New York State, help keep children out of foster care, reduce financial costs to state and local agencies, and improve the well-being of children in their care. Programs supporting these caregivers were cut fifty-percent in the Governor's budget proposal.

The bubbly grade schooler was tickled pink by her foster parents' plans to adopt her into their growing family, but a judge recently ordered she be sent to live with her recovering alcoholic mom instead.

Nickolas is a bright and athletic nine-year-old African American boy who enjoys all types of sports. Basketball, ice-skating, skateboarding and bike riding are among his favorites. He currently lives in a foster home where he is affectionate with his foster mother and has a healthy bond.

It can happen to anyone. It happened to a Manhattan doctor who was paraded in front of TV cameras in surgical scrubs after being accused of sexual abuse. It happened to a decorated former DEA agent who charged that Bronx cops arrested him for drug dealing after a run-in over a parking ticket. It happened to a Haitian immigrant who claims he was stopped and beaten by two police officers who thought he committed a robbery. As it turns out, none of these individuals were guilty of the crimes they had been accused of committing.

Note: OT or Not OT. That is the question. Babystealers falsely accuse people all the time right???

In August, the Department of Children and Families told Emmalee Fore that she was providing a "loving and safe" home for her two children.----Now, DCF has released reports on its handling of the case, and its officials admit that the agency failed to ensure Blake's safety in several key instances.----DCF issues apology after child’s death

Late Thursday afternoon, Florida's Department of Children and Families admitted it failed to protect a 15-month-old Tavares boy before he died. Two DCF workers have now been fired over little Blake Rupe's death.

In August, DCF closed the case and said Blake Rupe was in a loving and safe home. He died four months later and now the agency is making a rare apology.

Note: They're sorry, they f***** up, now back to business as usual right?

Prepared to graduate this spring from Oldham County High School, Julian Tweedy is a shining success in the state's foster care system, according to the judge supervising his case.

"We don't get to see a success story very often, so that's what you represent for us,'' Jefferson Family Court Judge Dolly Wisman Berry told the youth at an August court hearing, noting his vastly improved grades and school attendance. "You keep up the good work!"

Note: I will repeat this line. "We don't get to see a success story very often, so that's what you represent for us" by Family Court Judge Dolly Wisman Berry

Buried in the economic stimulus legislation is a provision further undercutting parental authority and expanding control of taxpayer dollars by family planning clinics. No doubt these provisions are embodied in the economic stimulus package because their congressional sponsors believe that they would not be enacted if considered separately on their own merits.

A Riverdale man who mentored students in Butts County elementary schools faces charges of molesting a fourth-grade boy.----Butts County school officials confirmed that Zakaluzny had registered with the schools as a classroom mentor in 2007 and 2008. School officials said Zakaluzny has volunteered in Clayton and Griffin-Spalding schools in the past. He also was a foster parent, Brown said.

The Patriot Act, designed to help fight terrorism, may be being misused.

The Patriot Act was enacted following the terrorist attacks on September 11, 2001. But it has given airlines some latitude in dealing with what they may consider unruly behavior. A case in point is Tamara Jo Freeman, who in 2007 was flying on Frontier Airlines to Denver when she moderately spanked her unruly children, then responded with some profanities when confronted by a flight attendant.

Behind closed doors in the home on Oakleigh Road in Parkville, police say Timothy Rhodes began abusing his babysitter when she was just 9 years old---at times showing her pornographic movies and sodomizing her.

Thursday, January 22, 2009

It was supposed to portray the goodness of man, the generous spirit of human beings.

But I found the outpouring of adoption offers for a child abandoned at a North Dakota fire station rather creepy.----Some of these parents might already have been considering domestic adoption; in which case they might already have considered the chance of finding a child whose story was fraught with complications. I understand the desperation for parents who are struggling through the adoption system, the willingness to jump at any option.

LGBT people thinking about starting or growing their family will have the chance to learn about adoption through the state foster care system during a pair of information sessions at the Blue Hills Boys and Girls Club in Dorchester, sponsored by the Massachusetts Adoption Resource Exchange (MARE).

On Jan. 28 prospective parents will learn about the process from social workers and experienced adoptive parents, and on Feb. 8 they will get a chance to hear from children and teens hoping to be adopted.

Note: Ah, foster children, brainwashed by their babystealers with dreams of forever homes paraded in front of perspective buyers. How wonderful right?

Scrambling to cope with a surge in welfare applications, Los Angeles County officials are considering a budget maneuver that would prop up some key support services by tapping a pot of money originally meant to fight child abuse and neglect.

Little Adolf Hitler Campbell’s parents are already in the midst of a custody battle. And now they may have even more trouble on their hands, because grandma was sauced in the backseat of their car, according to Adolf’s mother.

Wednesday, January 21, 2009

One sign of a police state is the imprisonment of ordinary citizens for committing annoying acts. In America, over 200 people have been sent to prison for raising their voices on commercial airline flights, convicted of felonies under the laws of the Patriot Act.

The mother of three Hunterdon County children with Nazi-themed names said Tuesday state officials removed her children from her home based on false allegations of abuse, according to a report in The Express Times.

Eighteen children from the Tony Alamo Christian Ministries remain in foster care after a judge in Texarkana ruled the juveniles were in danger because the ministry condones underage marriages, has a history of beating children for misbehavior and doesn't provide adequate schooling or medical care.

A woman who police say was shot in the head by her 92-year-old father remains in critical condition, but her brother has been upgraded to serious condition at Oregon Health & Science University hospital.----While investigators continue to look at the case, Bill Mackintosh, Kim's husband, said the family is praying for a miracle. Besides caring for her elderly dad, Kim Mackintosh was the full-time caretaker for her 12-year-old son, who is severely autistic.

The boy is in temporary foster care because his father drives a cab and can't provide round-the-clock care. The boy was found hiding after the shootings. He doesn't speak, so nobody knows how much of the violence he witnessed.

WELFARE officers have "enormous power" to remove children from the care of their parents, while leaving other children to languish in violent homes.

Child welfare advocate Freda Briggs said a recent case -- in which two children were removed from their cannabis-smoking parents despite there being no evidence of neglect or abuse -- was an example of "how much power they've got".

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